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RE: [OM] Greenish viewfinder image - is this unusual?

Subject: RE: [OM] Greenish viewfinder image - is this unusual?
From: Chip Stratton <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 11:00:07 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Glenn Garza
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 7:16 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: >
> I bought an OMPC when they first came out as my first SLR. One of
> my friends
> was a professional using Nikon. He offered to loan me his
> equipment when he
> was not using it. I decided to take him up on his offer and that is when I
> noticed a difference. The Olympus setup had a slight green cast that I
> attributed to the lens coatings. Maybe it was not the lenses because the
> cast was never evident in the resultant slides. There were differences
> between the two to be sure, but a green color cast was not one of them.


Now that is interesting. Could be on early OM-PCs this was just a
characteristic of the mirror they used. Since it doesn't affect exposures in
any way, I should probably just ignore it, but it does offend somewhat my
delicate sense of aesthetics, heh heh.

Chip
cstrat@xxxxxxxxx


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